PAINTED CANTON ENAMEL 'SEVEN SAGES OF THE BAMBOO GROVE' RECTANGULAR PLATE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
清 廣東銅胎畫琺瑯竹林七賢詩文長方盤supported on four bracket feet, the recessed interior finely painted with the famous ‘Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove’ seated by a cliff, inscribed with a poem on the top left, the canted cavetto adorned with birds and butterflies with flowers in cartouche against a bright yellow ground, the exterior decorated with colourful clouds against a lime-green ground, the base with a pomegranate fruit on a leafy branch, the mouth rim with copper mount 
20.3cm x 30.8cm